Essays on Nima Yushij : : animating modernism in Persian poetry / / edited by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak and Kamran Talattof.

• Superior document: Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; Volume 31
• TeilnehmendeR: Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad,; Talattof, Kamran,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; Volume 31.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index.
• ISBN: 9047414411
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak and Kamran Talattof.

Through several groundbreaking critical articles on the question of poetic modernity in Persian new verse, this book focuses on the life and works of Nima Yushij (1887-1960), a major modernist Iranian poet. The articles situate Nima's life firmly within the context of early 20th century Iranian history. They are framed by a brief introduction in which the various contributions are related to each other and to various trends in poetic modernism in the Persian language, and a bibliography that lists all of Nima's works and the major studies of his life and work, both in Persian and in various Western languages. The book fills a gap in the history of Persian literature that has long endured due to the resistance of such a tradition-bound culture to the modernization of its poetry.